David Shuster joining Al Jazeera America

7/22/13 9:15 AM EDT

David Shuster, the rootless cable television personality, has been hired by Al Jazeera America as as an anchor, sources at the network confirmed on Monday.

Shuster's hire, first reported by Michael Calderone, comes just one month before AJAM's scheduled launch on August 20. In recent months, AJAM has also added CNN's Ali Velshi, NBC's Michael Viquiera, and a number of local news anchors to its on-air ranks. Soledad O'Brien, the former CNN host, will also produce documentaries and serve as a special correspondent.

Shuster has worked at all three of the major cable news organizations -- CNN, Fox News and MSNBC -- and most recently served as an anchor and correspondent at Current TV, which was acquired by Al Jazeera earlier this year. In 2008, Shuster made headlines in Washington when he was suspended by MSNBC for suggesting on-air that Chelsea Clinton was being "pimped out" by her mother's presidential campaign.